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Synonyms for vilify
ˈvɪl əˌfaɪvil·i·fy

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. vilifyverb

    To say defamatory things about someone or something.

    Synonyms:
    slander, assail, denounce, libel, criticize, decry

  2. vilifyverb

    To belittle through speech; to put down.

    Synonyms:
    decry, assail, criticize, slander, denounce, libel

  3. vilifyverb

    Synonyms:
    berate

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. vilify

    Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

    Synonyms:
    abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, violate, vituperate, wrong

    Antonyms:
    applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. vilify

    Synonyms:
    debase, degrade, spoil, deteriorate, mar, defame, traduce, asperse, stigmatize, slander, upbraid, abuse, decry, cheapen

    Antonyms:
    purify, refine, exalt, raise, improve, enhance, eulogize, praise, laud, panegyrize, commend

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. vilify, revile, vituperate, railverb

    spread negative information about

    "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"

    Synonyms:
    fulminate, rail, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. vilifyverb

    Synonyms:
    malign, revile, vituperate, traduce, calumniate

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "vilify":

    demonize, denigrate, defame

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How to use vilify in a sentence?

  1. Phillip Calvert:

    Sometimes when Philwaukee Calvert take something and Philwaukee Calvert vilify it, it gets bigger and better.

  2. Lance Armstrong:

    I am deeply sorry for many things I have done. However, it is my hope that revealing the truth will lead to a bright, dope-free future for the sport I love, in the rush to vilify Lance, many of the other equally culpable participants have been allowed to escape scrutiny, much less sanction, and many of the anti-doping 'enforcers' have chosen to grandstand at Lance's expense rather than truly search for the truth.

  3. Elliot Peters:

    In the rush to vilify Lance, many of the other equally culpable participants have been allowed to escape scrutiny, much less sanction, and many of the anti-doping 'enforcers' have chosen to grandstand at Lance's expense rather than truly search for the truth.

  4. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton:

    We cannot, must not vilify police officers. Remember what those officers were doing when they died. They were protecting a peaceful march.

  5. Anthony Summers:

    One of the things that was hidden was the secret that United States was breaking the Japanese diplomatic code and keeping that secret saved countless lives during the war... but after that, there is no worthy reason for continuing to vilify two honorable men and to allow them to shoulder the responsibility of the death of so many young men. It is an injustice that should be righted. the fact that there have only been two big catastrophes -- one was Pearl Harbor... and the other was 9/11. They are both the same kind of stature and horror in the American memory.


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